Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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Sounds Vintage Presents: Radio Fallout
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Finnish sauna that was gifted to the UK after the 1948 Olympic Games has been granted Grade II-listed status
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In WWII paperback books were mobilized to improve morale
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels
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Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history
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Monica de Wichfeld awarded Blue plaque honour in Derrylin, Northern Ireland – was a leading member of the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II
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How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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The blue flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
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'Oppenheimer' brings painful memories of nuclear testing radiation exposure for New Mexico Native Americans and Hispanics
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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The secret gay love affair behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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Mike the headless chicken
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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Maps Are Fun! (1946)
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels - In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes
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WWII animated: Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1941
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Shostakovich's symphony played by a starving orchestra (7th, "Leningrad")
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Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's worst naval defeat
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WW2 animated: Western Front, 1944-1945. Part 1
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Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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The legendary Commando raid at St. Nazaire | The greatest raid of all time
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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Mark Bernes - Dark is the night (Soviet WW2 song)
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The USAAF intercepts and shoots down Admiral Yamamoto, 1943 - Animated
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Andra Day - Music from the Motion Picture 'The United States Vs. Billie Holiday' (2021)
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A Capital Plan - National Film Board documentary from 1949 on Ottawa, Canada
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Richard Feynman and the bomb
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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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"Brilliant" plans to win WW2: How France planned to win the war against Nazi Germany
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Erroll Garner - Misty (1946)
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Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers - Jumpin' Jive (1943)
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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Two feet from Clearwater's past, father's funny legacy leaves a deep impression
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Hiroshima (1946)
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World War Two animated: Western Front 1940
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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Comparison of a Martin D28 guitar from 1942 and a similar D28 from 2019
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Woody Guthrie - Tear the Fascists Down (1944)
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor
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